Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 58

The freshly released Premier League champions, Chelsea, are extremely powerful no matter how they look at them. They are a team with both offensive and defensive capabilities.

This team has one of the best centers in the world on the attack line, the Premier League Golden Boot this season, "Warcraft" Drogba; and the winner of the Premier League Golden Boot last season, French striker Anelka; In the midfield, they have one of the most efficient attacking midfielders in Europe, "Lamp" Lampard; on the defense line, they have England's best central defender Terry, and the Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech, who always wears a helmet.

In addition, Chelsea's Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti is also a coach with a brilliant track record. He once led AC Milan to win the Champions League twice.After finishing his coaching career at AC Milan, Ancelotti accepted Abramovich's invitation and came to Stamford Bridge.

Ancelotti led the Blues to the league championship in his first year in office, and his technical strength and command level cannot be underestimated.In addition, Ancelotti himself has a good temper and a high emotional intelligence. He is better able to balance the management, players and his own tactical arrangements, so as to achieve "harmony" in the locker room.From this point of view, although Ancelotti does not have the "iron fist" like Sir Alex Ferguson, he is also an excellent management guru.

Such a player, such a coach, Anton's team will meet such an opponent in the FA Cup final, will it be a pebble against a stone?

Not long after Chelsea won the championship, the media began to warm up for the FA Cup final in public opinion.This is partly because of the two FA Cup semi-finals, Chelsea 3-0 and Sunderland 6-0.

In addition, Chelsea played too bravely in the last game of the league, and they scored a huge score of 8:0 all at once.Now many people are very interested in the FA Cup final: to be able to score such a score, it is obvious that the offensive lines of the two teams are beyond imagination, but one is a stable and mature league champion, and the other One is the youth army who came back half way.

Immediately, a reporter interviewed Chelsea captain Terry: "In the FA Cup final, how many goals does Chelsea plan to score against the opponent?"

Terry served as the captain of Chelsea for a period of time, and he used an "official" tone that was not inferior to Anton's. He immediately said: "We value our opponents in the FA Cup final. We are eager for championships and victories. Presumably the opponents are the same as us. .So ... in the game we will do our best."

The reporter who was eagerly looking forward to it: ...that means you didn't say anything!

In addition, another big guy in the team who was cue was the midfielder Lampard known as the "Magic Lamp". The reason why he was cueed by the media was also very strange: Lampard had a nickname called The "magic lamp", and Sunderland's stadium is known as the "Bright Stadium". Pass the other lamp"?

The upright boy, Mr. Lampard, looked confused: ... what the hell?

In addition to the "magic lamp" stalk, one of the reasons why Lampard was named was that Tottenham, coached by his uncle Lao Lei, was eliminated by Sunderland in the fifth round of the FA Cup.So a reporter asked him if he would avenge Lao Lei in the FA Cup final and prevent Sunderland from winning the championship, so as to appease the regret that his uncle's team was out early.

Lampard was even more confused, and stretched out his hand to touch his head: "My uncle?... Does he feel any regrets?"

Although Tottenham led by Lao Lei was eliminated in the fifth round of the FA Cup, his team won No.3 in the Premier League, and he himself was named the best coach of the season, which is enough to make Lao Lei Lei Laohuai comforted her.Besides, winning or losing is a common matter in military affairs, and being out of the FA Cup is just a game. After the match, Lao Lei has already put it down.

The reporters listened to Lampard's reply: ... Please, Mr. "Magic Lamp", can you stop being so straightforward?

——Is this obviously an old meme deliberately brought up to create an atmosphere before the game!

In addition, there is another thing that was hyped before the game: the head coaches of the two teams are Italians, so this FA Cup final was hailed by reporters as a match between "two Italians".

But after Anton heard this statement, he came forward to clarify himself: "I'm sorry, I'm half-Italian, and I can only be regarded as half-Italian at most." "The duel.

The effect is really good. The strange headline has attracted the attention of countless people. Even the British who don’t watch football will stop because of this headline in the newspaper. !

There are also good reporters who asked Anton and Ancelotti whether they knew each other before, but they both admitted: "I know, I have met several times."

— so it was a fight between half-Italians who knew each other.

As early as two days before the FA Cup final, Anton brought the team to London to conduct adaptive training in advance and avoid the exhaustion of travel before the game.

The Premier League team Tottenham, who had previously "did not know each other" with Sunderland, this time very generously lent their training base for Sunderland to conduct pre-match training.This move just refuted the "boring" rumors on the market. Tottenham's defeat in the FA Cup relied on Chelsea to help them find their place?Can't they make a comeback themselves in the future?

On the day he arrived in London, Anton received an invitation from Ancelotti to have dinner with him at a restaurant near Stamford Bridge.

Anton did know Ancelotti and his preferences, so this time he specially picked a bottle of good-quality Italian red wine and brought it to Ancelotti as a gift.

The place Ancelotti chose to treat guests was a small Italian restaurant that serves private dishes. Find such a small restaurant.

The world always criticizes the lack of good food in Britain, saying that this country whose national dish is "fish and chips" always produces some dark dishes such as "stargazing pie" and "haggis hash".And Ancelotti himself loves all kinds of food, and is even a special food critic for a certain newspaper.

Before Ancelotti came to the UK to coach, the family would worry that he would not be able to adapt to the British diet.Fortunately, he came to London, where besides the dark cuisine of England, he can still taste food from all over the world.So Ancelotti's good appetite naturally came into play.It is said that he tried all the good restaurants in London within a month, and spent the rest of the time discovering unknown but delicious little shops.

And the gift Anton sent was also very much to Ancelotti's appetite.The old gourmet held the bottle and looked at the production area and year of the wine for a long time, but he didn't see why.But when the wine was poured into the glass and Ancelotti tasted it, he couldn't help praising it loudly, and sighed repeatedly: "How did you find such a good wine?"

There are two coaches, one is already a well-known coach who has made great achievements, and the other is a young coach who has just made his mark in football.And the battle is imminent, even if the two meet, it is just to have a meal and catch up on the old days. As for the technical and tactical arrangements for the FA Cup final, it is absolutely impossible to touch the topic.

But when Ancelotti invited Anton to come here at this time, he really had a question stuck in his throat. After holding back for a long time, he asked Anton: "Anton, what are your signings in Sunderland? How did you do it?"

Sunderland was able to turn around after halfway through the season, which is inseparable from the success of signings and the discovery of young players.Ancelotti does not have much pressure on signings. His Chelsea is backed by the financial strength of the big Russian chaebol. He can search for the players he wants in the transfer market without any scruples. As long as he is fancy, he will buy them immediately. return.

But Anton is different. This time, the transfer fee for the players that Anton introduced is clearly there. Everyone knows Sunderland's financial strength.However, these young players introduced by Anton, if one is successfully introduced, and one is promoted, a newcomer will shine, which makes Ancelotti very enthusiastic——

Anton, is there a secret to this?

Anton could feel the eager eyes of Ancelotti on the opposite side, and he couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips to smile, then raised the red wine glass at hand, and shook it skillfully. The ruby ​​red wine body is slightly attached to the glass wall, like a thin film of wine.

"You are a person who loves food, and you obviously know and love wine very much," Anton said in a clear voice, but there was a little slyness in his eyes when he said this, "I think you must have heard this sentence, about Red wine, 'begin in France and end in Italy'!"

Ancelotti was a bit at a loss: Of course he has heard this sentence, but what does it have to do with signings and promoting newcomers?

"It started in France and ended in Italy" means that people who taste red wine start from tasting French red wine, because French wine has a very good foundation in the tasting system, and the wine rated as "good wine" is Must be good wine.And "Finally Italy" is also called "Lost in Italy", which means that Italy's red wine evaluation system is in a mess, and some wines with obviously high ratings are almost unpalatable, making people want to drop glasses.

But there are also some small wineries in Italy that can produce amazing wines completely by borrowing from unknown small wineries. Like winning a big prize, it is absolutely super comfortable.Of course, this has also driven generation after generation of gourmets to give up the elegant and complete French famous wine tasting, and get lost in the vineyards of Tuscany's rolling hills all day long.

Ancelotti loves Italian food, so he knows exactly what Anton's metaphor means.

When Ancelotti bowed his head again, tasted the wine in the glass, and studied the production area and the not-so-good year on the wine label, he suddenly felt a little confused:

What Anton means is that discovering players is like discovering good wine in Italy, or scratching the lottery?

Ancelotti looked up at Anton, and saw that the young man was smiling quite peacefully, as if he was just talking about drinking and had no other intentions at all.

But the more Ancelotti thought about it, the more it came to this: wanting to discover talented future stars among the thousands of unknown young football players in the world is exactly like scratching the lottery.Sometimes what is discovered may not be really talented, and what is talented may not be suitable for your team...

Thinking of this, Ancelotti almost looked up to the sky and sighed: the young man opposite him has done an extraordinary job in discovering and supporting young people.It's like scratching a lottery ticket, while others just scratch it for a while, but Anton is always scratching it.

The author has something to say: Lampard is called the "magic lamp", it seems that it is mainly because of his surname, Lampard, Lampard, the first half is the lamp "Lamp" in English, after he became famous in West Ham , A reporter nicknamed him "Magic Lamp", and the name "Magic Lamp" has been handed down since then.

Lampard: ... lights, lights lights...

Tonight is the second round of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals. The first round of the home team has dug a bit of a hole in the away game... Recently I heard the news that Pharaoh and Fimi will not be able to play /(ㄒoㄒ)/~~It’s really here Moments of miracles are needed.

I hope our army will remain brave and fearless as always, no matter what kind of difficulties we face, YNWA!

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